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Mizan Tefere (also called simply Mizan) is a town in southern Ethiopia. The largest town, and the administrative center, of the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR), and located about 160 kilometers southwest of Jimma, Mizan Tefere has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1451 meters. Mizan Tefere with neighboring town of Aman forms separate woreda called Mizan Aman. This is surrounded by Debub Bench woreda. == Overview == Mizan Tefere is served by an airport (ICAO code HAMT, IATA MTF) with an unpaved runway. Until 1966, the town was connected by only a dry weather road to Gore; that year the roads to Bonga and Tepi were improved by the Highway Authority.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 February 2008)〕 Further proposed improvements were promised on 13 December 2006, when the Ethiopian government announced that it had secured a loan of US$ 98 million from the African Development Bank to pave the 227 kilometers of highway between Jimma and Mizan Teferi to the southwest. The loan would cover 64% of the 1270.97 million Birr budgeted for this project.〔("Ethiopian Embassy Newsletter", Nov/Dec 2006, p.2 ), Ethiopian Embassy to the UK website (accessed 11 January 2007)〕 By 1996 there was 24-hour electricity, and access to potable water.〔 According to the SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, Mizan Teferi's amenities also include digital telephone access, postal service, and a bank and a hospital.〔("Detailed statistics on hotels and tourism" ), Bureau of Finance and Economic Development website (accessed 4 September 2009)〕 Near the town is the Bebeka coffee plantation. It is also the location of two institutions of higher education, Aman Health Science College and Mizan - Tepi University. Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary and secondary school in 1968, and a 70-bed hospital built in 1989.〔 During the existence of the Bench Zone (created in the mid-1990s) Mizan Teferi was its administrative center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mizan Teferi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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